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Mr.  PICKERING'S  SPEEC%   "-'u 


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IN  THE  SENATE, 

DECEMBER    21,   1808. 

On  the  Bill  making  further  provision  for  enforcing 

the  Embargo. 

Mb.  PRESIDEKT, 

THE  legal,  the   constitutional,  anJ  the  commercial  objections 
lo  the  bill  under  consideration,  have  been  stated  by  the  gentleman 
from  Connecticut,  and  my  colleague  ;  and  enforced  by  rtusons  whicii 
to  me  appear  irresistible.     Hut  if  their  statotnents  were  as    incor- 
rect as  they  are  true  ;  if  their  reasoning  were  as    doubtful  as  it  ix 
irrefragable.-      id  if  the  rigorous  provisions  of  the  bill  were  carried 
into  executiou...not  by  the,  marshal  ai<led    by  the  pos^e  comilatus  or 
militia,  according  to  former    safe  and    wholesome  usages,  but    by 
Ihe  standing  army,   by  the  regular  troops,   who,  as  despotism    seems 
now  advancing    with   rapid  strides,  may  soon  become  the   Pra:tovi' 
an  Guards  of  the  palacg»..If;^say,  the  provisions  of  thii  bili  siiould 
be  perfectly  executed,  and  the  embargo  be   rendered  "complete  * 
...'\:\m  question,  the  important    question,  still    recurs.. .What    good 
\viUitdoour  country?     How  will   it  promote  the   public  wellare? 
Shall  I  be   again  told,  what  originated  at  the  palace,  and    has  been 
a  thousand  times  repeated  by  its  supporters,  that  it   has    saved  our 
seamen*  our  vessels  and  our  merchandise  ?     When  every  man  who 
will  open    his  eyes  must  see  that   the  position  is  unfounded  ;  and 
that  when  assigned  as  the  motive  for  laying  the  embargo^  has  beea 

demonstrated  to  be  a  delusion  ? Yes,  Sir,  it  is  still    insisted  on, 

that  if  our  vessels  were  permitted  to  go  out,  they  would  all  be 
swept  from  the  ocean  !  1  am  astonished  at  the  confidence  with 
which  gentlemen  laying  high  claims  to  information  and  discernment, 
continue  to  make  this  assertion* 

On  a  former  day,  by  exhibiting  lists  of  vessels  which  had  been 
safely  siiiling  on  the  high  seas,  and  the  moderate  raters  of 
insurance,  I  demonstrated  that  the  danger  so  m  ich  talked  of  wai 
fictitious. ..that  it  did  not  exist.  1  recollect  that  the  gentleman  fronti 
Virginia  (Mr.  Giles)  has  since  suggested,  that  the  calculations  oi 
my  "mercantile  friend  (Mr.  Thorndike)  of  the  rates  of  insurance, 
must  be  incorrect  ;  that  now  insurances  were  low,  because  "  thti 
French  have  no  inducements  to  send  out  privateers  to  depredate  up- 
on our  commerce,  as  long  as  the  embargo  restrains  it  within  our 
ports."  To  say  nothing  of  the  multitude  of  English  merchant 
vessels,  sufficient  to  excite  French  cupidity  and  lust  for  plunder,  I 
will  observe,  that  my  mercantile  friend  possesses  as  acute  native<lis- 
cernment  as  the  gentleman  from  Virginia,  and  in  anercantile  Uuew- 


inquesljonsibly  l>i 


My  fiiend'a  calcufa- 


s    gupenour 
lions  «lo  not  look  bade ;  tney  are    prospccth'e  :  formed    on    th«  /'^kj 
to  be   run,  if  the  embavijobcMemoved  and  the  sails  of  ourmerchant 
tessels  be  again  spread  on  the  sea.  .       i     i  *•     „    ,«,l    iK« 

But  as  the  c'entleman  alike  disregards  such  calculations,  and  ihe 
evidence  of  facts  app.^aring  at  several  insurance  offices  ^and  among 
men  cTf  plain,  practical  understanding,  these  would  be  resorted  to 
"ssour/erot' correct  information)  seeing.  I  -X' ^^-,f-;J-"^"J^^^^^ 
Virginia  is  not  satisfied  with  this  testimony,  why  did  he  not  advert 
7o  irauthority  which  he  holds  in  the  higl-^t  respect,  the  au^^^^^^^^ 
ritv  of  tho  President  and  Secretary  of  State?  ^^^y  ,'^^^f, 
kI\A  that  Bonaparte's  Berlin  decree  was  an  "  empty  menace  and 
"h^;FLl."l-^./^A-/^  the  means  ofcarr,in,U  into  f-'  «?-«f  .^^ 
Mts  and  abnegations  of  nentral  nations.  But  this  a  so  the  gentle- 
man  uassos  bv.     Let  mc  then  mention  one  more  statement. 

n    he  message  at  the  opening  of  the  present  session   of  Congre 
the   President  intormed  us,  that  his   ministers  in  London  a"J  P^  « 
had  bL^n   instructed  to  explain  to   the  respective  governmenU  h  s 
d?4osition  to  exercise  his  power  of  .uspendms  ''^  ^^fl^J^  ./"^^.J^. 
such  manrrcr  as  to  open  the  way  to  a  renewal  of  commercial  inter- 
coursibut  that  neiiiier  government  had  accepted  his  ofter.     Ihe 
S  truJtVons  to  his  ministe?  in  Paris,  the   President  says    were    ne- 
c^^rU;  rnodiried...but  how  he  did  not  say  ,  and  from  the  obscuri- 
tv  of  hi«  hin-uase  it  would  be  impossible  to  divine.     By    looking. 
hWe  er  tolhe^correspondcncc  between  Mr.  Madison  and  General 
A7mstonrperhaps  we  may  discover  the  boon  or  boons  oliered  to 
riThce.  ot  /ondition  of  the  Emperoi^s  repealing  hrs  decrees      Mr 
^ad,gon.avs  that  if  France  shoulc    evoke  her   decrees,  Great-Bri- 
t.in  Z     oMowing  the    example,   .ould  be  obliged  to   restore   t# 
Cnce  the  fu     blnefit  of  neutral  trade  ;  or,  by  persevering    ,n  her 
Lders    -  rem  er  collisions  with  the  United  States  inevitable.-     And 
Gener'al  \nUon:r  says   in  the  like  case,  that  "it  may  be    fairly 
^rT-'n' d^th"  UnU^d  St.tes  could  no  longer  hesitate  about  becom- 
FnTa  tiartv  to  the  war  against  England."     He  adds,  that   if  Great- 
EHtair  louTd  no/obtruct  our  trade,  the  wants  of  prance  and   her 
fc  w/  woulcl   be  suppiied...!f  Great-Britain  should  obstruct  th« 
ale  "'Te  Ivisheaof^l  n.aicsty  [the  French  -r,P--l -^^th; 

t^:t:^:^^  7-^  ^:;l:;;^:f^sr of  Ihe -S j^^ 

"^IcJ^^^^^^l^^r^^^  a  document    been  accidently  overlook 

^ \v;-h  r^crard  to  the  other  belli-erent,  the  President  speaks  a  plain- 
.r  lliil^f  He  '"yr^^^  to  Great-Britain.  "  whose  power  on  the 
crlaugnagc.  "^ ;;>%...„._  .....gj  explicitlv,  "  that  on  her  re- 
ocean  iS  so  ascendant,    it  was  j-iatea   LAp.A.       »  ,    .  , 

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fi^r  dependent  stales. ..when,  according:  to  the  gentK-man  from  Vir- 
ginia, that  temptation  to  plunder  would    fill  the  ocean  with  I'rench 
privateers  !     I  will  recite  the  {^entlenjau's  words..."  '1  he  vtason    of 
the  low  insurance,    is,  that  the  French  have  no  inducenieiii  tosend 
out  privateers,  to  depredate  upon  our  commerce,  as  long  lus  the  em- 
bargo restrains  it   within  our    ports, ..raise    the   endxugo,  and   tlie 
temptation  to  plunder  would    fill  the  ocean   with  privateers.      Th» 
commerce  would  stand  litlie  chance  to  escape  the  pkiuderers."     And 
yet  the  President,  who  professes  so  niucii   solicitude  lor  American 
seamen  and  American  commerce,  was  willing,  we  have  just  seen,  lo 
«uspend  the  embargo^  and  thereby  expose  our  seamen,  our  vessels 
and  merchandize,  "these    essential    resources,"  and    "with   little 
chance   to  escape,'*   to  the   plunder  of    French   privateers,  which 
would  then  fill   the  ocean! — Into  such  contradictions  v.ill  manJvind 
bfc  plun<;ed,   when  the  real  object  in  view  docs  uot  admit  i)f*  fair 
and  candid  disclosure. 

To  recur  to  the  question,  what  good  will  the  em^jar^©  do?  Hovr 
Mill  it  promote  the  public  welfare  ?    That  it  is  not  necessary  to  pre- 
serve our  seamen,  our  vessels  and  our  merchandijae,  lias  been  con- 
clusively proved.     Yet  it  is  said  that  it  must  be  continued,  and  if 
continued,  that  it  must  be  enforced   with   all  the   arbitra-ry  n'.gula- 
tions   and  powers  contained  in   the  bill  before  us  ;  uud   which  have 
been  sostrikingly  described  by  the  gentlemen  who  have  spoken  be- 
fore me,  in  order  w preserve  our  honour — ^*  -om  national  character,  and 
national  iudcpandeme." — In  my  apprehensioti  this  is  incorrect.     I  see, 
sir,  a  constant  eilbrt  to  idcntijy  oui  adir.iniMratinn  with  the  nation,  but 
they  are  essentially  distinguishable.     The  .errors  of  an  administra- 
njay  bring  mischief  upon  and  hazard    the  ruiii  of  a  hatioji.     Wit- 
ness, &t  tliis  moment,  the  brave  and  ^^eneroys   Spaniards,  who  afior 
suflerlngan  agf^  of  depression, have  been  regenerated  in  a  moment,  as 
with  an  electric    stroke,  a-id  nobly   rising,    are  now  breaking  tho 
chains  forged  for  them,  upon  .the  head  of  their   oppre;^or.      Who 
that  has  ajheart,  who  that  has  au-y  sympathy  for  human  suflerings... 
■who  that  respects  the  rights  of  seU'-govc*rn'.r.ent,  inherent  in  every 
iia'ion — will  not  Ik<1  them  God's  speed  ?     1   would  say,  go  on,  no- 
ble and  gallant  Spanic^rdsj,  and  be  the  instruments  of  heaven  to  stay 
the  ravages  of  the  most  rutiiiess  tyrant  that  has  scourged  the  Euso- 
pean  world,  since  the  Roman  JSmpire  felll 

I  was  saying, 5ir,  that  a  nation  and  its  administratian  nre  essentially 
distinguishable.     Jt  is  necessary  now  to  distinguish  them  in  our  o-llh 
'Country.     How  has  it  been  brought  into  its  present  state  of  embar- 
rasment  ?     Has  it  been  without  tlie  agency  of  its  administration  :... 
For  a  series  of  year^  sir,  illusions  have  been   industriously  >!;>read 
among  the  people.     'Jo  dissipate  those  illusion^  so  f»r  as  was  in  my 
power,  I  have  exposed    myself  to  the  slanders  and  reproaches  of 
the  ignorant,  the  base,  and   the   unprincipled.    J^ut   1  am   not  by 
such  means  to  be  discouraged.     IJitherto  my  attention  has  been  con- 
fined to  the  embargo.     It  is  that  which  immedi  tely  brought  the  na-> 
tion  into  its  nreseMt  denlorable  situation  j  and  the  only  way  to  escanf? 
from  it  is,  by  making  the  distinction. to  which  I  have  alluded.  And 
X  saj,  8iT,that  while  ia  ti»e  uature  of  thingsit  is  imposmble  for  the 


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•   J  .-  rt,.  ihf   honor  of  tbe  nation,  iU 
embargo  to  vindicate  the  nghto^lej^no^^  ^dministrati. 

maintenance  is  deemed  of  ^^^  ^^^.^^^^^^  i^.  Hence  the  unvane.l 
on.  who  htve  ^VaM  their  "-^P^^t  "'\ ,7""  ,ans  to  impress  the  be, 
Claris  of  the  administvafon    «"^;h;^^^^^  principal  cause  of  . 

lief,  that  the  i>r.ti8h  orders  mcoun,. I  vstr^^^  ,^^,.^,.^ 

the  embargo.  For  they  see  ^^^^  ,^j^^.^"X^^^^^       B^t  if  those  orders 

Congress  as  the  cause,  ^'"^^^^''^'y J"^"^'e"u  e'  "  ^^f"*"*^  ""'^'"'^  '''* 

MXMMhe  cause,  the  S^^^^'J^^'"   ^J^' '^^^^^^^ 

ott..r  niolivessankuUoins,§n.fi  ant  .   ^t  ,.^  reroked.... 

the  embargo  must  be    Vr'^^nt  the  last  importance  to  shew  that 
li.nco.  .ir.  it  appeared  to    »\"*^^^^;  j;,,^",\,use  of  the  embargo; 
tl,e  Briii.h  orders  m  ^•"""'•'[  7;,^.,T'    ^^^  \,y  proving  that  ^^ hen 
and  impartial  observers  th.uk       ^^  ,  ^";;;,    enl   tho.e'orders  wer, 
thee^nbargo  was  r-<>^^^'"^"^\':^^  ^1^      „^^f  ri'ulemen  persist  in  assert- 
in  this  country  unknown.  .^^"^  "' '  "' V' .^te  the  continuance  of 
ing  the  contrary,  and  on  that  ^'^^      ^^  .^^^,11    n  our  tables,  and 
,,%  embargo    wUh  ^W^  re.nU>rc.mH^    L:^::te;cour.e  law  ;...!  n.ust 
that  to  be  toi lowed,  I  suppose ,  ^^  'ui 

be  permuted  to  adduce  son,elu.therpio(...  ,^  B^^.Vm  de. 

We  have  been  gravely  told  tna    tbe  F  cnc     L    y  ^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^ 
cree,  declaring  all  tl>e  Br.t.sh  j^^^^  'l^^^,   ii„,,,„d.  on  ac- 
not  be  ju^titied  as  a  n.easure  ol     f'^'i^^^^^i^fa^  a  certain   extent  of 
count  of  her  declu.r^g  jn  -J^^^^^;^^^,'^^^  ^^^^         and  blockaded  evea 
coa.t,  the  whole  oi  ^^h.ch  could  not  be  n  v  ^^^  .^  ^^^^  ,^ 

by  her  powerlul    navy...because  1  raDce    )  ,iominion8  ; 

tation  I  single  ship  before  any  one  P". t  ^  e  i^  ^.^^  .^^  ^^^^^^^^ 
and  that  the  Milan  decree  ot  l^O.'  ^^^-^^f^^  ^,^,,  u^  the  British  or- 
on  the  supposed  -na.escence  ot  ^^^^^,,,,^  .vhich  have  not 
tiers  of  tlie  preceding  month,    J'  ;\^    "         ^„^,,„  in  America  at    Jx 

c'ertainlv  been  ac.in'^'«^"-ed  »'•.  ^^'^  f  ".^  be  p  eased  to  recollect,  that 
ck/c-o//k./<cra-'lNowgentlemen^^^^^^^^  ^^^  ^,^^    ,,,,,  ,f 

the  French  ^-V^^^^^'^  ^:^!^l^\^'ZX>^  -orning,  Decen.ber 
December,  180.;  ^  "^  ^V^",:^  to  Got  h  Hou.es  ofConsrvess,  re- 
IStb,  came  the  President  h  nitssa^t  i" 

•<;ommeuding  the  laying  of  »n  ^l'^''^^'       ;„  Ameucaon  the  17ih 

Now,  if  the  liritish  ^'■'^^^^.^/^^^^^"^te.'s;  w      believe  that  the  plua 
of  Deceniber,  wluitmano    commo™  ^^^.^^^  ^.^^^ 

lor  imposing  the  embargo  (a  P''-^";'^  5,  p,.^,uient  in  the  moru- 

terrible  conscH^^ences)  ^f  7""^"'';i/-,^i!h'.rders  in  council,  which 
i„g  of  the  18th.  had  lor  Us  basis  the  ^^"^^^^^  ,,  ?  As  I  ob- 
vvere  not  kno.n  in  America  on  "«  "^f^^  /  L?ime%vhich  inter- 
served  on  a  ^-^^^-^^^'IZ^S.^  from  France,  by  the 
•  vened  between  the  aruva  -ll';^^XT^,^,,^  the  embargo  was  re. 
Kevcnge,  and  the   18  h   oi  13e mnoe  >  ^^^^  ^^^^^^^.^  ^^^^ 

comu.en.led)  "  gave  '^^>^  ^^^^^^^'^ ;  f  ^t  fl?  as  it  then  went  (and 
r,,,.  1  now  add,"  sir.  th.t  ^^;  «^  ,?;f  [..^.fo,  n.able  to  the  views  and 
Piore  was  not  lht.n  pracwCaJ.e;   "f       r    ^j,^     «,,,  that  shouiti  the 

^v.shes  of  the  Frcncl.  ^^^^P'-^'-^;,,^"'^,  a;^vc  shall  have  adv.-.oed 
,tr.ng  bill    ^^^»w  on  our  tables  become  a  law^^^^^  ^^_^^  ^^.j,^,,^ 

^^c  concur  ;n  one  olhes  mtaiar.,  a 


,  if* 
trati- 
iried 
e  bc^ 
ise  of  •• 
et'oie 
rdeis 
h  Rll 
f  that 
ed...« 
!  that 
argo; 
when 
I  werQ 
assfitr 
ice  of 
s,  and 
1  must 

lin  dp- 
could 
on  ac- 
tent  of 
?d  cvea 
>wcr  tr> 
Inions  ; 
3  li  fence 
tish  Gr- 
ave n<»t 
a  at  tlx 
ct,  that 
17th  of 
jceinbtv 
vess,  re- 

the17ih 

the  platj 
,s;ve  and 
le  nioru- 
il,  \vhiih 
As  I  ob- 
ch  inter- 
c,  by  the 
0  was  ie« 
re  SUCH  A 
lent  (and 
iews  and 
ihouid  the 
adva'-ced 
hat  \v\\r-n 


.  I  i-<  „  T>r;,n;»  which  wafl  adopted  last  Saturdajr  ertning 
^Tr  "tXsf  r;hrn  n  have  act..l  i..  ccnplete  c„„fo,mi., 
^"uha^       ".W  wishes  of  .he  French  E„,perc,^ 

I    r    „.;.  i-,„',,-rnr    ns  thcv  are  supposed  to  na^e  exisicu  aj'^"'    e*" 
the  Frcncn  ii.m,)iroi ,  a*  iiii>  "'^      ir         .      ,      „_,„prnr      We  have 
Pnt  It  seems  that  this   will  not  now  saMsfy  the  emperor.     v>e  nave 
i::„'\:rSy  i.  ou.  mov.n,e„.     a  no— -e  .,tU    G.  Bn. 
tain.  t«.-lv=  roonlhs  ago,  nu«ht  ''"'^Pf^f ^'^/Xr  or  his  encm;«. 

■^;&::rs;;r;he  Sj;/.rh?:Xepe.  his  aece,. 

''N;^hTesprtotellrriSrr"h:"or.uve  to  .nspena  the  e.- 

Witti  respeti  lo  ^ii  ,       council  v'ere  revoked,  has  been 

bar"o,  on  condition  that  the  orders  in  cm  >cii  v-  c  orders  ini 

^hp  savs  "  was  the  commencement  of  an  attempt,  not  "^^^'^'^     .,., 
prie  saj  s      vvaamv     »*  T>,.w:on  •  lint  utterlv  to  annwulate 

,      :  raVUo-;"og ;;;?,  th:;J:t"t :o,..cessio„  wouU  infaiabW  encourage 

«  a  perseverance  in  it."  nrnfp«ed    whv  did  our  jrovern- 

Jf  the  <nibar^;o  was  designed     as  profee^^^  dominions  by /and  as 

n,ent  declare  a  blockade   against  the  ^^'^'^f  ^^^'^  j  ^e  exposed  to 

well  as  by  sea  ?     Neither  ^^^^T'"     "iPu^rjeen  advantageously  car- 

'^^^"^^'^i^.Tri^;:"Bnti'h:oi^ 

riedon  by  land  niMi  tne  »^'^'^';!' '^      ,      .     ,    u         accustomed,  ever 

Tbe  people  of  ^^":?^:^'J^^^^^^...  «i.h  the  BrU 

jsjp'^'^  ilif' "cace  of  1  (  hi,  to  txv,ndnf,c  lilt     ^         _        ^ ,«„i,„„,i;,p 

p  5. -.-  t        _         IV...  o«,f    niiH  other  ailiCK'S  ui   iss'^''--"""—^' 


ti.xh  subjects  in 


Canada,  for  salt  and  othe 


Yet  even  t 

jkcts  ;  and  bloods 


his  beneficial  trade  has  been  pt 


■ohibited  by  the    embargo 


letlCiai  naut-  naa    l.^..'."  J -         -  jj 

ihed  and  death  have  been  the  consequence,     b 


•iinu 


lar  traffic  scenes  have  been  acted  In  the  district  of  Maine.    Does  not 
be  Xrous  prohibition  of  this /ami  commerce  alone  demons  rate 
IkI  !^  hor XJ^h  than  have  ever  beenoflicially  avowed  really  dictat- 
ed the  embar7o>Lat^^^^^^^^        that  in  Holfand  (a  country  govern, 
ed  Iw  a  broth^er  of  the  French  emperor,  and  absolutely  under  h,s 
fon^oul    the  necessities  ot  the  peo^ple  for  j^^^-.^^PPj^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
tained  from  England,  having,' caused  «.^«»^°"«^*^f  ^^^"^P;;°[e^'^^ 
decrees  of  blockade.,  additional  provisions  have  been   made  ,  ana 
the  breaches  of  those  decrees  are  henceforward  to  be  P^n^^^d  wuh 
^  \i!      with  similar  nace   the  U.  States  are  advancing.. .and  by  the 
bill  tforYis  tr  mb^argo  i    to  be  en  forced  by  additional  regulations 

Zr7^it  of  makfga\hP  ,am.'ti.ne  .gains,  both  the  belhgerent 
.  Son 'and  the.  si  the  two  most  powerful  in  the  world  :"  and  under 
the'ed/cumstances,  a  principle  of  justice  forbade  our  choosmg  our 
adveriarv'  Must  not  inch  sentiments  expose  us  to  der.s.on  ?  fwo 
adversary,     luu^ii.        „„j  „.  .u„,,lj  vio  atethe  pnncip  es  of  jus- 

r^T  to'o^Z'lh^^^^^^^^^  wit'houta'tthe  sLie 

tice,  '^'to  obtain   sat   taction^  ^  ^^^^  ^^^  ^^,_ 

time  attacking  the  other       It  we  wo  ,^i„  common  sense, 

f,  ZaTl"«^'d  1h  two  soutfXw  travellers,  and  be  alternately 
lllfutrndtacked.  by  both  .nd  he  "t  the^anre  t,™e  perce      d 

/.Ji1^^Td^e\^:u:ra:drsSet^lo:^To7cfoX,ewi,hou. 

«"k'ast  so  far  a,  was  necessary,  to  a.enge  1,,,  wrongs,  and  <,  F„    '  1= 
?u:rZ!c'o"u>dno.„.i.Uju^^^^^ 

''°Zt\'i;eltrarsX\he  ,entle.a„^  fron^^^^^^^^^ 

own  for  a  new  master  ?  and  hasten  ^"'i.b"""   ,'  ,  .  Protector 

Jofty  titles  of  Emperor  of  France  and  K,ng  of_  I^%|^a"^^  ^^^ZZ 
of  tL  Confederation  "J^'he  !«.-  ;„al  le  .u     d   U.^..   --.^^  ^^ 

:LnglTr-^-  h"v:\visIed';th;'Br-.Ush.avy  were  destroyed. 


OM  not 
mstrate 
dictat- 
govern- 
der  his 
lly  ob- 
•*s  strict 
e  ;  and 
led  with 
1  by  the 
;ulations 
Id  spirit 
3ing  the 

go,  are, 
situation 
ar  be  re- 
Ihgerent 
lid  under 
ising  our 
1  ?    Two 
is  of  jus- 
:he  same 
;  airy  re- 
on  sense^ 
tielms  the 
ng  on  Ihtt 
Iternately 
)erceived 
?     Stand 
with  one, 

0  provide 

1  course  is 
have  their 
nging  the 
ither,  and 

of  iniluc- 
tnmitted  ; 


rinia  (Mr. 
,   DOW  in  a 
ther  Bona- 
ermits  this 
id  by  con- 
s  with  no  r 
hen  to  the 
I   Protector 
>f  Enioeror 
il  course  «f 
jstroved.. 


In  the  short  interval  of  peace  in  1802,  Bonaparte,  .n  t  few  months, 
.entfi^ltv  thou  and  soldiers  tosubdue  the  negroes  of  S t.  Dommgo. 
The  c  ma  e  subdued  his  -.'ii^-i.-and  St.  Dommgo  contmue.  mde- 
ILder  But  the  United  States  present  a  tery  d.fterent  theatre.  .. 
t  ^h  .nldiert  would  here  be  as  healthy  as  our  own.  And  if  witli 
The  shil^  sudTedytrnis^^^^  ia  France'and  Holland,  Bonaparte  at 
once  Sorted  forty  thousand  men  to  St.  Dom.ngo,  what  numbers 
could  he  S^send  to  the   United  States  in  the  thousands  of  Bnt.sh 

"r\sTn"maredt?  if  thro^fv atlons  I  have  made,   though 
proper  on  rqte'lionVo^^^^^  the  act,  laying  the  embargo,  are 

frrelevant  on^he  bill  now  before  u,  :     But  to  me  they  appear  per- 
fectly applicable  in  both  cases :   for  if  they  go  to  show  that  the  em- 

barg^  oSght  never  to  have  been  imposed,  *»1  ^r^li/  I  hiv.  L* 
manner,  against  enforcing  it.  execution:  and  therefoie,  I  bav.  a(P 

rduced  them. 


Prim^by  J.  Rohimm,  qfficc  of  the  Fcdtrd  R^ubUian,  Bdiimtft. 


